It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
A thought is an idea in transit.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I cannot live without books.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
